Example sentences of "own time " in BNC.
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| 31 | In their own time they were often called ‘ Condition of England Novels ’ , because they addressed themselves directly to the state of the nation . |
| 32 | But perhaps more generally women find their own retirement easier because they have had to organize their own time for most of their lives and have relied more on the small pleasures of domestic life . |
| 33 | Almost any photograph can reveal something about its own time if read properly — even the boring cartes-de-visite portraits produced in their millions all over the world , offer evidence of contemporary fashions and attitudes . |
| 34 | Perhaps it is not so surprising , since Tony Bowran learnt his craft from the practitioners of the finest photographic advertising images of the ‘ 70's , and like the painters of previous years that he so admires and draws great inspiration from , they too had apprentices who eventually became masters in their own time . |
| 35 | Its boards were bowed and creaking ; it had been maltreated in its own time . |
| 36 | He should take his own route in his own time and avoid the tendency to see through others ' eyes . |
| 37 | Goodhart-Rendel writing from the viewpoint of having altered his first plate-glass windowed house , Idsworth ( 1848–52 ) , Hampshire , found his elevations conventional and even perfunctory and in our own time even Howard Colvin found that ‘ not a single building stands out as a masterpiece ’ . |
| 38 | I can remember doing that in my own time . |
| 39 | Personally , I do not share that view but whatever the reason , stubbornness must not be allowed to succeed : the dog must do what he is commanded to do , not in his own time , when he feels like it , but immediately ; and if it is done correctly , he should receive praise and lots of it . |
| 40 | When the puppy comes to your calling its name , reward it with a titbit , then put his lead on in your own time , praising and stroking it . |
| 41 | They can then absorb the literature in their own time and make up their own minds . |
| 42 | The terror , if not the actuality , of the disease has survived into our own time . |
| 43 | It is a bitter indictment of our own time that the phrase ‘ inner city ’ should today universally conjure up images of disorder , poverty , fear , vandalism , and alienation . |
| 44 | One of those to die was a naturalist and an Admiral in the Roman Navy , Caius Plinius or Pliny the Elder , who was a much-respected man and widely-known in his own time . |
| 45 | Nearer our own time , millstones were fashioned from the gritstone rocks of the upper slopes for the many water-powered mills in the district , and debris of this industry may still be found by diligent search near Sand Tarn . |
| 46 | Nearer our own time , in 1830 , when the extensive manor of Ingleton changed hands , the new owner had a tower intended as a hospice erected on the summit , made from stone pillaged from the wall and the foundations of the huts . |
| 47 | We need to listen — and to go on listening — to the Bible and to later spiritual writers and preachers ; we need to give due weight to tradition and also to try to discern the movement of the Holy Spirit in our own time . |
| 48 | In Our Own Time |
| 49 | Individuals should also have the right to choose their own time of retirement . |
| 50 | Allow him or her to rest for a while to ‘ come round ’ in their own time . |
| 51 | Finally governors recognised that a fully established committee structure might involve an unreasonable amount of their own time . |
| 52 | This path of magic is recommended to the quiet , pacifistic person who dislikes the dramatic and likes to allow the world to take its own time . |
| 53 | In this book , Woodruff Sullivan traces the actual story of the birth and early growth of a new science in our own time , by reprinting a selection of 37 ‘ key ’ papers in radio astronomy . |
| 54 | The hunt will occur later , on its own terms and in its own time . |
| 55 | Indeed I detect a genuine and growing support for Agriculture in schools , evident from pupils and their parents , whenever leadership is given by an enthusiastic teacher , and I have met a number of these , giving freely of their own time and sometimes of their limited funds as well . |
| 56 | As the principals were all noblemen and their ladies , each used to having their own way in their own time , organising them was almost impossible . |
| 57 | Unlike the budget ‘ Rouge et Noir ’ series this is exclusively devoted to French repertoire and artists with names like d'Indy , Gounod , Fauré , Henry Rabaud , Debussy , Poulenc , Gabriel Pierné , Koechlin , and nearer our own time , Boulez and Messiaen . |
| 58 | extending direct experience beyond our own time into the past and the future , and beyond our own environment ; |
| 59 | Farrar was free of two taboos of our own time : the taboo on affection and the taboo on the discussion of death . |
| 60 | Those designs are mine , done in my own time and made up by my own outworkers . |